History Main / HealerGod

** [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyOlympians Apollo]] had medicine as one of his domains, and was the father of the god of medicine Asclepius.

** Menrva was an Etruscan goddess of war, art, wisdom, and medicine. She later lost the medicine domain and became the Roman war goddess [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyOlympians Minerva]].

->''"Their gift to the traveler is a simple one -- they heal those who are in pain."''
-->-- '''The Temple of Stendarr'''

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* In ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', there are a number of gods who specialize in making healing potions. One of Hestia's close friends in Orario, Miach, is a NiceGuy who enjoys handing out potions to newbies in need of them, even though it [[PerpetualPoverty constantly puts his already impoverished family in the red.]] His rival, Dian Cecht, is comparatively wealthy due to his high-quality potions but is a known {{Jerkass}} who constantly overcharges for his services.

** "Panacea" became a word meaning cure-all. But originally Panacea was the Greek goddess of universal remedies and daughter of Asclepius.
* Myth/CanaaniteMythology: Shadrafa was a benevolent deity whose name translates to "Spirit of Healing". He was the patron deity of the ancient city Leptis Magna, near modern-day Tripoli in the country of Libya. He was worshiped in other ancient Semitic cultures such as Palmyra. He is depicted as young, beautiful (like Adonis) with helpful serpents, scorpions, and lions.

** ''TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}'': Pelor was the popular sun god of light, strength and healing.

** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': Shallya, the pacifistic White Dove of Mercy, is the Human goddess of healing who is loved by all good people. While she and her followers are mostly relegated to the lore, when they do have rules (such as in the GaidenGame ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay''), Shallya grants a broad range of healing spells to her cultists, along with one potent offensive spell that only affects followers of Nurgle, the [[{{Plaguemaster}} Chaos God of Disease]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Pharaoh}}'': When a city worships Bast as PatronGod and adds the right upgrades to her Temple Complex, her priestesses can remove plagued citizens, preventing them from spreading the infection further (they don't replace physicians though). On the flip side, [[GodIsDispleased anger Bast]] and ''she'll'' send a plague.
* ''VideoGame/ZeusMasterOfOlympus'': As a PatronGod, Apollo helps prevent plague in your city, but if he's hostile, he'll send a plague and curse your infirmaries.
* ''VideoGame/EmperorRiseOfTheMiddleKingdom'': As the legendary founder of Chinese herbal medicine, when the Divine Farmer Shen Nong [[PhysicalReligion walks the streets of your city]], he provides herbalist services to all households he passes and halves the cost of new herbalist buildings.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pharaoh}}'': With the right upgrades to the Temple Complex to Bast, her priestesses can remove plagued citizens, preventing them from spreading the infection further (they don't replace physicians though). On the flip side, anger Bast and ''she'll'' send a plague.
* ''VideoGame/ZeusMasterOfOlympus'': Worshipping Apollo helps prevent plague but if he's hostile, he'll send a plague and curse your infirmaries.

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* ''Literature/DarkShores'': Hegeria, worshipped as the goddess of the body, who gives her marked the ability to heal wounds and diseases. This comes at a [[CastFromHitPoints price]], since trying to heal someone whose affliction or wound is really serious can age or even kill the healer.
* ''Literature/TheRavenTower'': Oissen is the PhysicalGod of healing and the inventor of MiracleFood, which give him a sizeable following in Ard Vusktia. It's very much a case of GoodPowersBadPeople since he hones his abilities by observing thousands of slaves as they die of preventable conditions.
* ''Literature/GuardiansOfTheFlame'': Doria becomes her character, who's a cleric of the Healing Hand. The entire order is dedicated to healing people in their deity's service.
* ''Literature/FengshenYanyi'': When Jiang Ziya names the new 365 gods, the God of Smallpox, Yu Hualong, is told that to compensate his role, his wife Lady Jin will become a healing Goddess of Hospital Wards, tasked with preserving life.
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*** Lathander is the god of birth, renewal, healing, and the sunrise/dawn. He's basically Pelor (see below) with a different name and a bit less of a solar focus.

*** Lathander is the god of birth, renewal, healing, and the sunrise (in previous editions he was the god of the sun in all its types, but that role was split off into another deity). He's basically Pelor (see below) with a different name.

A deity or demigod whose specialty is healing. Most gods can heal in a pinch, but they are not pure healers with a healing domain within a FantasyPantheon. In real life mythologies, this god is the one who teaches medicine, and is the patron for human healing arts. This trope is OlderThanDirt since it appears in stone age cultures, AncientEgypt, and Myth/MesopotamianMythology.

This trope is for deities and not mortal characters with a healing ability like HealingHands. This type of deity is often TheMedic for their FantasyPantheon, and is a source of LifeEnergy or WhiteMagic for player characters needing healing. This type of deity tends to be on the good side of BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil or BlackAndWhiteMorality, or on the side of life in LifeDeathJuxtaposition against death.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': Apollo's position as an Olympian healer comes up when Zeus' power and mind begin to degrade, but even he can do nothing for a god whose power source has failed so utterly that it is effecting his mind within his own realm.

* In ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', there are a number of gods who specialize in making healing potions. One of Hestia's close friends in Orario, Miach, is a NiceGuy who enjoys handing out potions to newbies in need of them, even though it [[PerpetualPoverty constantly puts his already impoverished family in the red.]] His rival, Dian Cecht, is comparatively wealthy due to his high-quality potions, but is a known {{Jerkass}} who constantly overcharges for his services.

* ''Literature/TheRavenTower'': Oissen is the PhysicalGod of healing and the inventor of MiracleFood, which give him a sizeable following in Ard Vusktia. It's very much a case of GoodPowersBadPeople, since he hones his abilities by observing thousands of slaves as they die of preventable conditions.

* Myth/CanaaniteMythology: Shadrafa was a benevolent deity whose name translates to "Spirit of Healing". He was the patron deity of the ancient city Leptis Magna, near modern day Tripoli in the country of Libya. He was worshiped in other ancient semitic cultures such as Palmyra. He is depicted as young, beautiful (like Adonis) with helpful serpents, scorpions, and lions.

** The Santerian Orisha named Babalu Aye has the speciality of curing infectious diseases.

* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', Asclepius, the Greek god of medicine, can be summoned as a Servant in his previously mortal form. As such, he cannot bring people back from the dead as in the myth, but is still capable of prodigious feats of healing.

* ''VideoGame/ZeusMasterOfOlympus'': Worshipping Apollo helps prevent plague, but if he's hostile he'll send a plague and curse your infirmaries.

* Literature/TheBible: Jesus, being the Son of God and given authority to heal the sick, goes on to heal the sick, notably blind people and lepers, exorcise demons, and resurrect the dead, even on Sabbath days, to which Jewish authorities find it a violation on their laws.

* UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} is of course famous for healing people in [[Literature/TheFourGospels the Gospels]]. Healings are probably the most frequent miracle that he's shown to perform.